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KOCK, MMAge Description ... was the end of Bheki. // The person who did this has been found. I want this person to come out. This person is already on trial, it’s Eugene de Kock. What I’d like the Commission to find out from him, I’m not clear how Bheki’s name got involved as a sender in the parcel. Another thing ... Black policemen at Vlakplaas were called askaris, they did most of the killing for Eugene de Kock, yet their lives were worth nothing and they were executed as easily as they killed opponents of the apartheid government. // Talk about a dog that feeds on its puppies; that was De Kock. He fed on his ... ... the best possible behaviour. It allows you contact visits and it’s earned. Now if this person had earned A group status. // Is this Eugene de Kock? // That’s right. Notwithstanding the horrors of the crimes that he’d committed; if he’d earned A group status on the criteria that the ... ... the next three weeks, at least these six are going to tell stories which are going to be very similar in gravity to that what we’ve heard from De Kock. ... ... in the murder and said at the Harms Commission that he read about the murder in the newspaper. // Evidence was recently led in the Eugene de Kock case that he and his men killed the fourth member of the death squad. Brian Ngqulunga was shot dead in July 1990, because he wanted to confess ... ... became a farce. // This was the man investigating Coetzee’s allegation, General Krappies Engelbrecht, recently exposed in the Eugene de Kock case as the Vlakplaas sweeper, the cop who had to cover up. The Goldstone Commission implicated him in third force activities. No surprise then ... ... be an interest of reconciliation. There can be little doubt that it would stir up high emotions if these murderers were to walk free. Now that De Kock is in a maximum security cell another Vlakplaas policeman is stepping into his shoes as prime evil number two, as apartheid’s second most ... If you look at the prognosis of Eugene de Kock. Anybody who thinks I took Eugene from Sunday school to prison…it’s just a fallacy. He has a bad profile, an evil profile. If you think of people he killed and at this point in time, how do you evaluate him and think that he may not continue that ... ... business. The nation is still waiting to hear what shocking revelations might come from the amnesty applications of serial murderer Eugene de Kock and superspy Craig ... I feel relieved especially for mister De Kock, he has impressed me really. In fact he impressed from day one of the trial because he speaks the truth. When we look at this new face of Eugene de Kock and wonder why he seems so human and normal we should remember what the author Hannah Arendt said about the notorious Nazi leader Adolf Eichman in her book Inquiry into the Banality of Evil. This is what she wrote. // ‘The trouble with Eichman was ... They may well be interested parties who would have been or who even did try to prevail upon De Kock not to talk. I am more than satisfied on reports that I have that there are clearly interested parties who would have preferred that he does not talk. He is now giving evidence under oath. He gives ... In April 1990 a large squad of Vlakplaas operatives and Western Transvaal security police led by Eugene de Kock set off on a midnight mission into Botswana. Their target was the home and shop of Sam Chan also referred to as Kahn. This week Wouter Mentz sought amnesty for his role in the murders of ... De Kock gave instructions that we should go and help Port Elizabeth Police, because there were some chaps that were making Port Elizabeth ungovernable and those people had to be eliminated. to denote only captured ANC, PAC cadres who tend to become South African Police but only black ones. // There came this guy in the name of Eugene de Kock, the one who told me first it’s either you cooperate or you die. Then he took out his pistol, it was a Parabellum. He cocked it, he shot one ... ... have been involved in this. When former Vlakplaas commander Dirk Coetzee, spoke in November 1989, they said he was mad. But then came the Eugene de Kock case and an orgy of death and destruction committed by him and his men unfolded in public. // The men say in their letter: In the total struggle ... What is clear after this week’s evidence is that Eugene de Kock did not act alone. The whole state apparatus was behind him, cheering him on and decorating him. And De Klerk and other National Party ministers were part of the state apparatus. ... Committee disclosing what they have done and they contradict themselves to a large degree. Now one wonders … // Or even people like Eugene de Kock who was the commander and Dirk Coetzee who was the commander? // None of them come and said yes collectively we have done this. If you would ... Louis Le Grange lied. At the time of the bombing a group of security policemen were assembled in London, amongst them Craig Williamson, Vic McPherson, Peter Casselton, Eugene de Kock. ... have done without this process? // Well you know I don’t think this process was the only alternative. One could have had trials along the De Kock trial, now the Ferdi Barnard trial. My whole feeling about the Truth Commission, there was very little observance of judicial procedures. So, ... |
